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enClinging to a God who Carries Tragedy Aroundhttp://dojustice.crcna.org/article/clinging-god-who-carries-tragedy-around
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="textformatter-list"><a href="/author/thyra-vankeeken" class="node node-165 node-bio node-reference">Thyra VanKeeken</a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I went to a concert in Toronto last night. Donovan Woods played the Danforth Music Hall. He walked on stage, hat in hand, and said (paraphrased): “I live in Toronto too. And I’m thinking about <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/24/americas/toronto-van-attack-victims/index.html">that van that hit those pedestrians on Monday</a>. And I’m going to keep thinking about it, all night. And I’m going to sing some songs. And I’ll probably tell some jokes. But the whole time I’ll be thinking about it. And so will you. And that’s okay.”</p>
<blockquote><h5>I can’t shake it.</h5>
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<p>He went on to say some other nice things, things about how strong our city is, and how proud of our multiculturalism he is, that it is not a buzz word here, but something that strengthens and defines us. But that line, about always thinking about that van and those people walking on Yonge Street on Monday at 1:30pm, resonated with me. Because that’s the thing, isn’t it? We just keep thinking about it. I can’t shake it. Not in any way. I’m going to carry this one around with me always, in some way. I’ll tell people in years to come where I was and how I reacted when this happened. What a senseless act of violence.</p>
<p>We carry tragedy with us. All of us do. Our own tragedies. The tragedies of a city. The tragedy of a <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-humboldt-broncos-hockey-bus-crash-saskatchewan-explainer/">bus crash in Saskatchewan that took too many lives</a>. The tragedy of <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-monday-january-22-2018-1.4495693/we-matter-indigenous-youth-raise-their-voices-in-the-fight-against-suicide-1.4495702">Indigenous youth suicides</a>. The tragedies of others. Tragedies of other places. We carry tragedy around.</p>
<blockquote><h5>We are called, like God, to carry tragedy and love, together.</h5>
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<p>And we hope in a God that carries tragedy around too. And that is a good thing, isn’t it? A God that isn’t distant. Doesn’t send down punishments on us. But a God who carries tragedy. And holds ours too.</p>
<p>And somehow, in the face of all that tragedy, God is still a God of love. And he calls us to love, despite the hurt we feel, despite our fear. We are called, like God, to carry tragedy and love, together. We hope it makes us better. More loving. More kind. We hope tragedy doesn’t pull us down, but calls us out. We pray that it doesn’t lead to more hate, more violence.</p>
<p>I see that today. I see people walking boldly on the streets of Toronto. I see #Torontostrong, and so many random acts of kindness, on corners up and down Yonge Street. I see flowers and vigils and reaching out. I see love in the face of tragedy.</p>
<blockquote><h5>That’s all I can manage today. I can’t manage a detailed theology of suffering.</h5>
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<p>That’s all I can manage today. I can’t manage a detailed theology of suffering. I am too stunned to make things make sense. Because they don’t. I can’t face the hate or the despair that would provoke someone to do what that man in that van did. But I hope in a God who holds my suffering, and the suffering of every affected family, of every survivor in the hospital, every bystander who witnessed the scene. Every person, around the world, who is grieving the 10 people who died.</p>
<p>I am hanging on to a God who is working to put things back together in Christ. A God whose love is bigger than any tragedy.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="textformatter-list"><a href="/author/travis-west" class="node node-843 node-bio node-reference">Travis West</a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Over the Easter weekend, the news media was once again flooded with violent images coming out of Israel and Palestine. We saw groups of masked Palestinians stoke fires made of tires while thick smoke rose into the grey-blue Gazan sky. On the other side of the barrier fence we saw Israeli artillery vehicles shoot teargas to disperse the crowds, and a hundred snipers shoot live ammunition as the people ran for cover. What is going on over there? Will the violence ever end?</p>
<blockquote><h5>This year, tens of thousands of Palestinians peacefully marched to the barrier fence separating Gaza from Israel.</h5>
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<p>For Palestinians, March 30th is “Land Day,” the day in 1976 when Israel crushed a peaceful strike and mass protests by thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel protesting land confiscation. Six Palestinians were killed that day.</p>
<p>This year, tens of thousands of Palestinians peacefully marched to the barrier fence separating Gaza from Israel to demonstrate and call attention to their plight. The Israeli response was unequivocal. Israeli snipers (one hundred strong) were given explicit “shoot-to-kill” orders. And shoot they did. According to Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, 15 protestors were killed, almost 1,500 others were injured—including 750 hit by live ammunition—and at least 20 are in critical condition.</p>
<p>While Christians everywhere remembered the death of Jesus for the sins of the world, the world witnessed the sins of the State raining down on unarmed protestors seeking a better future.</p>
<p>The fact that tens of thousands of Gazans would willingly walk toward the fence behind which stood a heavily armed line of Israeli soldiers with fingers on their triggers should prompt in us an important question: Why would the people of Gaza risk their lives like this? This is precisely the question Palestinians want us on the other side of the world to ask. Why would they risk so much? What are they trying to draw the world’s attention to?</p>
<blockquote><h5>Why would the people of Gaza risk their lives like this?</h5>
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<p>Part of the answer, according to Robert Cohen—a Jewish journalist from the UK—is that the West Bank and Gaza have been colonized and occupied by Israel for over 50 years. This is not to say the Palestinians are without fault. This is to say there is a profound power imbalance in the region. Some results of this imbalance of power are: severe restrictions on the Palestinian economy and freedom of movement, no control over their own utilities such as water, Palestinians being forced to suffer daily indignities at both permanent and roaming checkpoints throughout the West Bank, and two legal systems operative in the West Bank—one for Israeli citizens living illegally in settlements, and martial law for native Palestinian residents.</p>
<p>And the situation in Gaza is worse. The infrastructure has been decimated through several Israeli military operations over the last few years. Unemployment is almost 44%. Electricity is only available 2–4 hrs/day, even for schools and hospitals. Hopelessness reigns as Israel often prevents aid trucks from getting much needed supplies to hospitals, schools, and kitchens due to the perceived security risks.</p>
<blockquote><h5>The West Bank and Gaza have been colonized and occupied by Israel for over 50 years.</h5>
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<p>What might it look like to take a posture of solidarity with the people of Palestine? What does the world look like from their perspective? I have met many Palestinian people. I have shared food and drink (very strong coffee!) in their homes. I have listened to their stories. I have laughed with them and cried with them. But I realize that not everyone has the ability to travel to Israel/Palestine. (As a side note, if you are able to travel to the region, make sure to go on a tour that introduces you to Israel and Palestine, Israelis and Palestinians).</p>
<p>This is why I am part of Kairos West Michigan (KWM), a local movement dedicated to seeking understanding as to the sources of the hostilities between the Israeli and Palestinian people. A few times a year we bring speakers who are experts in various aspects of the situation to help us understand the dynamics of the struggle for peace with justice in Israel and Palestine. </p>
<p>If you are interested in learning how Palestinians—both Christian and Muslim—and Israelis—Jewish, secular, and Messianic—are struggling to find either sustainable security or freedom with dignity in Israel and Palestine, I'd encourage you to look for a similar movement in your area that will help you learn, pray, and support those who are struggling to live out their faith around the world.</p>
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<p><em>Editor's note: The<a href="http://justice.crcna.org/suggestions-to-agencies-boards-and-institutions-crc" target="_blank"> Middle East Study Trip report concluded</a> that the major contribution the CRC can make as agencies, institutions, and individuals is to raise awareness of the plight of Palestinians -- particularly our sisters and brothers in Christ -- among our members and friends. Its recommendations were accepted by the Board of Trustees (now the Council of Delegates) on behalf of Synod, and were subsequently implemented.</em></p>
<p><em>[Image: Flickr user <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rustystewart/214932474/">Rusty Stewart</a>, under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/legalcode">Creative Commons license</a>]</em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/topic/middle-east" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Middle East</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/topic/peace-war" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Peace &amp; War</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-category field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/categories/why-church-cares" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Why the Church Cares</a></div></div></div>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:00:00 +0000drowaan844 at http://dojustice.crcna.orgWelcoming Refugees: From Compassion to Action in 4 Stepshttp://dojustice.crcna.org/article/welcoming-refugees-compassion-action-4-steps
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="textformatter-list"><a href="/author/anne-fennema" class="node node-838 node-bio node-reference">Anne Fennema</a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I remember the excitement I felt when our refugee friends walked into the waiting area at O’Hare. The little group from our church did not know how to speak to them, but we had attempted some signs in Arabic and brought small gifts and flowers to try to show them a warm welcome.</p>
<blockquote><h5><strong>We were cobbling together relationships through Google Translate, sweet treats, thick Syrian coffee, small gifts and shared meals</strong>.</h5>
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<p>Over the next few months, we visited with the family weekly, attempting to meet simple needs and working with the resettlement agency to meet bigger ones. More than that, we were cobbling together relationships through Google Translate, sweet treats, thick Syrian coffee, small gifts and shared meals. I don’t think any of us knew what to expect going in, but God blessed us all with friendship.</p>
<p>So how does a church or a family come to a point where they move from concern about refugees to taking steps to welcome them?</p>
<h5><strong>1) First, we need to correct a few misconceptions about refugees. </strong></h5>
<p>Here are a few basics:</p>
<ul><li>Who is a refugee? According to UNHCR, “A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence.” <a href="https://www.unrefugees.org/refugee-facts/what-is-a-refugee/">This website</a> includes some helpful distinctions between refugees and other groups of displaced people.</li>
<li>How does someone qualify for resettlement? Receiving refugee status from the UN Refugee Agency (the UNHCR) is only the first step of the process—there are (at least) 10 steps in the vetting process after this point! It usually lasts between 18 months and 3 years. (Learn more about the vetting process in the U.S. or Canada on the <a href="http://justice.crcna.org/refugee-resources#3%20security%20and%20process">OSJ website</a>.) Very few refugees are ever resettled. Of the 22.5 million people with refugee status, the U.S. has historically accepted between 50,000 and 80,000 refugees each year.</li>
<li>The global refugee situation is unprecedented. <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html">According the UN Refugee Agency</a>, at the end of 2016, 65.6 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. This number includes 22.5 million refugees (the highest number the Agency has ever seen), 40.3 million internally displaced people, and 2.8 million asylum seekers.</li>
</ul><p>These basic facts are a necessary foundation for compassion, action, and advocacy.</p>
<h5><strong>2) Refugees are people created in the image of God.</strong></h5>
<p>This is a call to empathy. It can be easy to gloss over a statistic like 22.5 million refugees. By definition, all refugees have feared for their lives enough to leave their homes and flee across a border. Many cross on foot with very few possessions or prospects for shelter, food, and safety for themselves or their families. The family we greeted at the airport did just that a few years before we met them.</p>
<blockquote><h5><strong>We often need Jesus to challenge our notion of who our neighbors are.</strong></h5>
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<p>In an increasingly globalized world, it’s important for us to recognize that the biblical command to “love your neighbor as you love yourself” applies to everyone to whom we have the opportunity to extend a hand. Like the expert in the law, we often need Jesus to challenge our notion of who our neighbors are with a story of strangers helping strangers and command us to, “Go and do likewise.” Perhaps our church’s refugee story will be that challenge for you today. </p>
<h5>3) We need to get up close and personal with refugees.</h5>
<p>Once you begin to see refugees as image-bearers, it’s natural to feel called to act. Our first instinct is often to donate, and that is a good instinct. God does call us to give generously to those in need, and our church benefitted greatly from the generosity of our friends and families as we sought to support the Syrian family we sponsored.</p>
<p>However, I would like to suggest that the most impactful next step is to get to know a refugee. Whether that involves building relationships through the sponsorship program, working with a refugee aid organization, volunteering as a tutor, using your business to provide employment to refugees, or teaching ESL classes, the key is to put in enough time and effort to develop meaningful relationships. This allows you to listen to and learn from your neighbors and to begin to see them as friends. These types of relationships change people and churches.</p>
<h5>4) Speaking out</h5>
<p>For our church, becoming friends with a Syrian refugee family personalized the challenges refugees face and drove us to share some of what we had learned with friends, family, and eventually our government representatives. We chose to speak out.</p>
<p>We started small: sharing our story on blogs, in this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/crcna/photos/?tab=album&amp;album_id=10155434656685362">CRC Facebook series</a>, and in conversations with friends and family. But when faced with the staggering numbers of refugees, we also felt called to bring our message to more powerful people.</p>
<p>It’s difficult to follow the biblical call to welcome refugees here in the U.S. when our government has dramatically reduced the flow! Resettlement limits are at an all-time low (just 45,000), despite unprecedented need and actual resettlements are even more tepid. As of February 28, just 1,927 refugees had actually arrived in the United States since the limit was set 5 months ago (October 1, 2017). Recognizing that this response stood in opposition to our biblical calling to welcome strangers, members of our church organized meetings with our representatives.</p>
<blockquote><h5><strong>It’s difficult to follow the biblical call to welcome refugees here in the U.S. when our government has dramatically reduced the flow!</strong></h5>
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<p>Another simple but effective way to act on behalf of refugees is to use this <a href="http://p2a.co/XRmRFBO">action alert from the Office of Social Justice</a> to send a personal email to your congressperson or representative. Political engagement on this issue may feel foreign to some Christians. But for us, our love for our Syrian friends overflowed into the way we considered our government’s policies and pushed us to advocate for a more welcoming society.</p>
<p>In the Body of Christ, we all have different callings. Our church has been deeply blessed by the opportunity to welcome and befriend a refugee family. Our relationships with them continue to motivate us to learn and speak out.</p>
<p>Whatever your calling is, pursue it faithfully. Don’t be afraid to move from compassion to action. This is part of what it means to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness!</p>
<h5 class="rtecenter"><a href="http://p2a.co/XRmRFBO">Urge your U.S. representative to speak up for refugee resettlement</a></h5>
<p class="rtecenter"><strong>If you're in Canada, watch for an opportunity to take action next week for Refugee Rights Day!</strong></p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="textformatter-list"><a href="/author/danielle-chun" class="node node-727 node-bio node-reference">Danielle Chun</a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I first started truly learning about the Syrian refugee crisis in November 2015, when I heard about children dying and boats capsizing and sentiments expressed in off-hand comments like "Why should we let them in? They're not refugees, they're just migrants."</p>
<blockquote><h5>The Syrian civil war has been "ongoing" for the past seven years.</h5>
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<p>For the people of Eastern Ghouta, Syria, it has been a month of relentless airstrikes, artillery fire, cluster bombs, barrel bombs, incendiary bombs, sniper fire, and a chlorine attack. More than 1,500 people—fathers, mothers, children, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, cousins—have been killed in Eastern Ghouta since Sunday, February 19.</p>
<p>Two years and four months since November 2015, the Syrian civil war is still ongoing. It has been "ongoing" for the past seven years. March 15 marked the beginning of the eighth year of a war that has killed almost 500,000 people. Today, nearly 13 million Syrians are displaced; more than six million refugees have left their homeland.</p>
<blockquote><h5>In the first two months of 2018, the United States welcomed five Syrian refugees.</h5>
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<p>In the first two months of 2018, the United States welcomed five Syrian refugees. For context, five is approximately 19 times fewer than the number of people who died in a single day in Eastern Ghouta.</p>
<p>I wrote the poem below on November 18, 2015. It still seems applicable now.</p>
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<p><em>Heavy heart, willing hands</em></p>
<p><em>Closed doors, open lands</em></p>
<p><em>Trapped in between</em></p>
<p><em>Nowhere to turn</em></p>
<p><em>God, have mercy</em></p>
<p><em>We are so lost</em><br />
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<p><em>Heal the rift</em></p>
<p><em>Bridge the gap</em></p>
<p><em>Empathy</em></p>
<p><em>Hypocrisy</em></p>
<p><em>What strange words</em></p>
<p><em>Empty and full and sometimes unknown</em></p>
<p><em>Claiming to understand</em></p>
<p><em>We are so blind</em></p>
<p><em>So scared</em></p>
<p><em>Expecting the worst</em></p>
<p><em>We turn our backs</em></p>
<p><em>Hear their cry</em></p>
<p><em>Hear their hearts</em></p>
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<p><em>What have we become?</em></p>
<p><em>Forgetting our past</em></p>
<p><em>We were once strangers too</em></p>
<p><em>Foreigners</em></p>
<p><em>Alone</em></p>
<p><em>Afraid</em></p>
<p><em>Unknown</em></p>
<p><em>Unwanted</em></p>
<p><em>Left-behind</em></p>
<p><em>The lost, the lonely</em></p>
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<p><em>What do we do?</em></p>
<p><em>Where do we turn?</em></p>
<p><em>Lost childhoods</em></p>
<p><em>Lost limbs</em></p>
<p><em>Broken hearts</em></p>
<p><em>Broken minds</em></p>
<p><em>The weight of the future</em></p>
<p><em>The blood of thousands</em></p>
<p><em>On our hands</em></p>
<p><em>All on our hands</em></p>
<p>--</p>
<p>But the story doesn’t have to end this way. There is a better ending—and we can be part of that better ending.</p>
<blockquote><h5>There is a better ending—and we can be part of that better ending.</h5>
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<p>Organizations like the Preemptive Love Coalition and <a href="http://worldrenew.net/syria">World Renew</a> are making a difference in the lives of refugees locally displaced in Syria and Iraq, empowering people in opening businesses and rebuilding their future. Churches like Immanuel CRC in Hamilton, Ontario (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/crcjustice/photos/a.10154474607938670.1073741831.46472658669/10154474610593670/?type=3&amp;theater">and many others!</a>) are welcoming refugee families admitted to Canada and the U.S. and walking with them in their resettlement process. People like you and me are calling their elected officials and asking them, “Where are the refugees?”</p>
<h5>What if the poem read this way?</h5>
<p><em>Hopeful heart, willing hands</em></p>
<p><em>Opened doors, open lands</em></p>
<p><em>Walk into a future</em></p>
<p><em>“We’re glad you’re here!"</em></p>
<p><em>God, take pleasure</em></p>
<p><em>We are one body</em><br />
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<p><em>The rift is healed</em></p>
<p><em>The gap is bridged</em></p>
<p><em>Empathy</em></p>
<p><em>Humility</em></p>
<p><em>What powerful words</em></p>
<p><em>A signal, a sign that our actions aren’t ours</em></p>
<p><em>God, be praised</em></p>
<p><em>Guided by grace</em></p>
<p><em>We are unsure</em></p>
<p><em>Expecting the good</em></p>
<p><em>But fearing the bad</em></p>
<p><em>We choose to open our arms</em></p>
<p><em>For love overcomes fear</em></p>
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<p><em>Who are we now?</em></p>
<p><em>We remember our past</em></p>
<p><em>We were once strangers too</em></p>
<p><em>Foreigners</em></p>
<p><em>Alone</em></p>
<p><em>Afraid</em></p>
<p><em>Unknown</em></p>
<p><em>Unwanted</em></p>
<p><em>Left-behind</em></p>
<p><em>The lost, the lonely</em></p>
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<p><em>What do we see?</em></p>
<p><em>Look around:</em></p>
<p><em>Childhoods restored</em></p>
<p><em>New limbs</em></p>
<p><em>Healed hearts</em></p>
<p><em>Minds at peace</em></p>
<p><em>The weight of the future</em></p>
<p><em>The future of thousands</em></p>
<p><em>Joy in our hearts</em></p>
<p><em>Life on our hands</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>And God, we lift these hands and say</em></p>
<p><em>“We are your body</em></p>
<p><em>We are the church</em></p>
<p><em>‘And they’ll know</em></p>
<p><em>We are Christians</em></p>
<p><em>By our love’”</em></p>
<h5>If you’re in the U.S., <a href="http://p2a.co/XRmRFBO">contact your elected officials here</a> to support refugee resettlement.</h5>
<h5>If you’re in Canada, watch for an opportunity to advocate alongside refugees on Refugee Rights Day (April 4).</h5>
<p><em>[Image: Flickr user <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jordibernabeu/15596725158">Jordi Bernabeu Farrús</a>, under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode">Creative Commons license</a>]</em></p>
<p> </p>
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